National IWRM plans; links with Water Supply and Sanitation

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National IWRM plans links with Water Supply and
Sanitation

• Palle Lindgaard Jørgensen
• Technical Secretariat
• Yerevan, 13 December 2006

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IWRM is a framework for rational and sustainable

• development of (infrastructure) and management
• resource management and service delivery
• and water efficiency is an integral element

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Managing competing uses
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Water supply and sanitation improved (MDG Goal 7,
targets 10 and 11 being met)
Examples of linkages between implementation of
IWRM and delivery of water supply and
sanitation services in a city
BANG!!
Environmental flow ensured gt Salinity intrusion
under control
Municipal wastewater standards enforced Urban
sewer systems installed gt Urban water pollution
reduced
Industrial water quality standards
enforced Polluter-pays principle in enforced gt
industrial water pollution controlled
Use of agro-chemical regulated gt Agricultural
water pollution controlled (surface- and
groundwater)
Reservoir releases negotiated with city gtMax.
flood releases ensured gtMin dry season flows
ensured
Deforestation halted Watershed management practice
d gt Soil erosion under control
BANG!

Groundwater extractions regulated gt Groundwater
levels stabilized
Water resources policy and law adopted and
enforced gt incl. policy and legal framework
for water supply and sanitation gt incl.
financing mechanisms and tariff system for water
and sanitation River basin planning and
management structures in place Water allocation
and water right systems in place Climate
adaptation measures being introduced gt incl.
measures to adapt to extreme events (floods and
droughts)
Integrated Water Resources Management being
implemented
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IWRM planning A cyclic process!
Vision
Situation analysis
Monitoring
Awareness Participation Commitment Capacity
Strategy
Implementation
IWRM Plan
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National IWRM Plans

• IWRM 2005 Plans - adopted at the WSSD in 2002
• Globally 25 of all coutries have progressed
  well, 50 have made some progress, 25 little of
  no progress (4th WWF Mexico 2006)
• Armenia has progressed well, however more needs
  to be done in implementation (Water Policy, Water
  code, National Water Programme)

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IWRM WSS what are the links

• Water supply and sanitation is in most countries
  considered as a sectoral water service just
  like irrigation, hydropower etc.
• IWRM provides a necessary framework for the
  sectoral water services for water resources
  policies and legislation, monitoring, planning
  and allocation, use permits, compliance and
  enforcement, financial management
• IWRM plans are the plans to establish the
  framework

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IWRM importance for water supply and sanitation

• Water management policies, laws also comprise
  water use for drinking water and discarge of
  waste water
• Water quality standards as part of the
  legislation
• Standards for pollution discarge
• Monitoring of surface and groundwater and source
  water quality

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IWRM Importance for water supply and sanitation

• Planning and allocation in river basins- securing
  water quantity and quality, land use planning
• Water permits- rules and procedures for
  abstraction for drinking water and discarge of
  waste water
• Compliance and enforcement (water supply and
  sanitation sector service)

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IWRM Importance for water supply and sanitation

• Protection of drinking water sources
• Prioritization of capital investments in river
  basins
• Financing of IWRM, financing mechanisms and
  integration into national budget system
• User pay systems- cost recovery

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Financial analysis of IWRM

• Costs functions Institutional framework
  including capacity building
• investments and OM in water resources
  infrastucture (channels, weirs, monitoring
  equipment, laboratories) sector water service
  infrastructure (part of infrastructure to be
  covered by WRM)
• Income functions Water use permits, fees and
  fines national budgets, donor and loans

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IWRMManaging water for society
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